Hampshire Telecoms Contracts

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Telecoms' in contract IT jobs within the Hampshire region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Telecoms over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Telecommunications (Telecomms)
Location Aberdeen Altrincham Amersham Avon Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oswestry Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Pontefract Portsmouth Preston Prestwick Reading Redditch Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Sale Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Witney Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	12	13
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	179	220
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.236 %	0.219 %
As % of the category below	18.80 %	20.09 %
Daily rates quoted	41	43
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£328
Average daily rate	£340	£339
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£354	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£368
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.56	£23.91
Average hourly rate	£25.67	£25.49
% change on same period last year	+0.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.78	£27.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.81	£24.43
% change on same period last year	-2.54 %
General Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	952	1095
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.256 %	1.091 %
Daily rates quoted	312	343
Average minimum daily rate	£362	£370
Average daily rate	£384	£393
% change on same period last year	-2.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£407	£415
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£381
% change on same period last year	+0.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	162	184
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.85	£30.92
Average hourly rate	£28.38	£32.75
% change on same period last year	-13.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.91	£34.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.94	£27.04
% change on same period last year	+3.32 %
Telecoms South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Telecoms
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Telecoms across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Telecoms
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Telecoms across the Hampshire region.

Telecoms
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Telecoms across the Hampshire region.

Telecoms
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Telecoms across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

Telecoms
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Telecoms within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Basingstoke	+13	39	£361	-20.67 %
Farnborough	-6	10	£399	+11.72 %
Winchester	+8	9	£333	-
Petersfield	-	5	£300	-
Fareham	-	4	-	-
Havant	-7	3	-	-
Portsmouth	-14	3	-	-
Southampton	-7	1	-	-
Eastleigh	-	1	-	-

Telecoms South East

Telecoms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Telecoms.

1 56 (12.23 %) Migration 2 40 (8.734 %) C 3 37 (8.079 %) UNIX 4 34 (7.424 %) 3G 4 34 (7.424 %) Security Cleared 5 30 (6.550 %) Network Design 6 29 (6.332 %) Ericsson 6 29 (6.332 %) 2G 6 29 (6.332 %) Linux 6 29 (6.332 %) C++ 7 28 (6.114 %) GSM 8 27 (5.895 %) Microsoft 9 26 (5.677 %) Handset 10 23 (5.022 %) ASIC 11 22 (4.803 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array

11 22 (4.803 %) ISO27001 12 21 (4.585 %) Project Management 12 21 (4.585 %) Finance 12 21 (4.585 %) Solaris 12 21 (4.585 %) MS Excel 13 20 (4.367 %) SC Cleared 14 19 (4.148 %) SQL 14 19 (4.148 %) Cisco 15 17 (3.712 %) GPRS 15 17 (3.712 %) VHDL 16 16 (3.493 %) Degree 16 16 (3.493 %) Internet 17 15 (3.275 %) SLA 17 15 (3.275 %) Network Planning 18 14 (3.057 %) RNC

Telecoms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Telecoms also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Telecoms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 14 (3.057 %) XML 2 7 (1.528 %) WebSphere 3 5 (1.092 %) XML Schema 3 5 (1.092 %) .NET 4 3 (0.655 %) Swing 4 3 (0.655 %) J2SE 4 3 (0.655 %) J2EE 5 2 (0.437 %) Spring 5 2 (0.437 %) ArcObjects 5 2 (0.437 %) Middleware 5 2 (0.437 %) VXML 5 2 (0.437 %) ASP 5 2 (0.437 %) Struts 5 2 (0.437 %) WebServices 6 1 (0.218 %) Java RMI 6 1 (0.218 %) CORBA 6 1 (0.218 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (0.218 %) CSS 6 1 (0.218 %) JSP 6 1 (0.218 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 6 (1.310 %) Apache 2 5 (1.092 %) Tomcat 3 4 (0.873 %) WebSphere Message Broker 3 4 (0.873 %) WebSphere Application Server 3 4 (0.873 %) Lotus Notes 4 3 (0.655 %) WebSphere MQ 5 2 (0.437 %) ArcSDE 5 2 (0.437 %) Oracle Spatial 5 2 (0.437 %) ArcGIS 5 2 (0.437 %) BizTalk Server 5 2 (0.437 %) MQSeries 5 2 (0.437 %) SAS 5 2 (0.437 %) MS Exchange 6 1 (0.218 %) IIS 6 1 (0.218 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 21 (4.585 %) MS Excel 2 11 (2.402 %) MS Office 3 5 (1.092 %) MS Visio 4 3 (0.655 %) AutoCAD 4 3 (0.655 %) MS PowerPoint 4 3 (0.655 %) Pro/ENGINEER 5 2 (0.437 %) MS Project 6 1 (0.218 %) S-PLUS 6 1 (0.218 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 1 (0.218 %) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking 1 34 (7.424 %) 3G 2 29 (6.332 %) 2G 3 28 (6.114 %) GSM 4 17 (3.712 %) GPRS 5 16 (3.493 %) Internet 6 14 (3.057 %) RNC 6 14 (3.057 %) TETRA 6 14 (3.057 %) TCP/IP 7 12 (2.620 %) 3GPP 7 12 (2.620 %) ATM 8 10 (2.183 %) WAN 9 9 (1.965 %) DNS 9 9 (1.965 %) DHCP 10 8 (1.747 %) BSS 10 8 (1.747 %) Network Security 10 8 (1.747 %) LAN 11 7 (1.528 %) Wireless 12 6 (1.310 %) WCDMA 12 6 (1.310 %) LDAP 12 6 (1.310 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (2.838 %) SQL Server 2 7 (1.528 %) Crystal Reports 3 5 (1.092 %) Oracle 10g 3 5 (1.092 %) Oracle 9i 3 5 (1.092 %) DB2 4 4 (0.873 %) BusinessObjects 5 3 (0.655 %) Oracle 8/8i 6 2 (0.437 %) SQL Server 2000 6 2 (0.437 %) MS Access 7 1 (0.218 %) Datawarehouse 7 1 (0.218 %) MySQL 7 1 (0.218 %) SAP BW
Development Applications 1 11 (2.402 %) ClearCase 2 5 (1.092 %) Visual Studio 2 5 (1.092 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 4 (0.873 %) TestDirector 3 4 (0.873 %) MSI 4 3 (0.655 %) LabVIEW 5 2 (0.437 %) CruiseControl 5 2 (0.437 %) Flash 6 1 (0.218 %) JUnit 6 1 (0.218 %) WinRunner 6 1 (0.218 %) QuickTest Pro 6 1 (0.218 %) LoadRunner 6 1 (0.218 %) ClearQuest	General 1 21 (4.585 %) Finance 2 13 (2.838 %) Marketing 3 11 (2.402 %) Billing 4 10 (2.183 %) Auditing 4 10 (2.183 %) Government 5 7 (1.528 %) Electronics 5 7 (1.528 %) Aerospace 5 7 (1.528 %) Multimedia 6 6 (1.310 %) Military 6 6 (1.310 %) Electric 7 4 (0.873 %) Construction 7 4 (0.873 %) Health 8 3 (0.655 %) Video Editing 9 2 (0.437 %) Legal 10 1 (0.218 %) Front Office 10 1 (0.218 %) Chemicals 10 1 (0.218 %) Manufacturing 10 1 (0.218 %) Advertising 10 1 (0.218 %) Publishing 10 1 (0.218 %) Education
Job Titles 1 49 (10.70 %) Analyst 2 40 (8.734 %) Developer 3 27 (5.895 %) Architect 4 25 (5.459 %) Project Manager 5 24 (5.240 %) Software Engineer 6 21 (4.585 %) FPGA Engineer 7 20 (4.367 %) Support Engineer 7 20 (4.367 %) Network Architect 8 18 (3.930 %) Systems Engineer 9 16 (3.493 %) Design Engineer 9 16 (3.493 %) Business Analyst 10 15 (3.275 %) Network Engineer 11 14 (3.057 %) Consultant 12 12 (2.620 %) Administrator 13 11 (2.402 %) Test Analyst 14 10 (2.183 %) Technical Designer 14 10 (2.183 %) Coordinator 15 9 (1.965 %) Network Designer 15 9 (1.965 %) Migration Consultant 16 8 (1.747 %) Integration Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 26 (5.677 %) Handset 2 23 (5.022 %) ASIC 3 22 (4.803 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 4 17 (3.712 %) VHDL 5 14 (3.057 %) IVR 6 9 (1.965 %) DTV 7 5 (1.092 %) Device Driver 8 4 (0.873 %) French Language 9 3 (0.655 %) STB 10 2 (0.437 %) Clustering 10 2 (0.437 %) IPTV 10 2 (0.437 %) Management Information System 11 1 (0.218 %) Client/Server 11 1 (0.218 %) Thin Client 11 1 (0.218 %) AS400 11 1 (0.218 %) Statistics 11 1 (0.218 %) PDA 11 1 (0.218 %) Fat Client 11 1 (0.218 %) ASIC Verification
Operating Systems 1 37 (8.079 %) UNIX 2 29 (6.332 %) Linux 3 21 (4.585 %) Solaris 4 10 (2.183 %) Windows 5 4 (0.873 %) SUSE 6 3 (0.655 %) Windows Server 2003 6 3 (0.655 %) Embedded Linux 7 2 (0.437 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 2 (0.437 %) Red Hat Linux 7 2 (0.437 %) AIX 7 2 (0.437 %) Windows 2000 7 2 (0.437 %) Windows XP 8 1 (0.218 %) Windows NT 8 1 (0.218 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 56 (12.23 %) Migration 2 34 (7.424 %) Security Cleared 3 30 (6.550 %) Network Design 4 21 (4.585 %) Project Management 5 20 (4.367 %) SC Cleared 6 15 (3.275 %) Network Planning 7 10 (2.183 %) PRINCE2 7 10 (2.183 %) Configuration Management 8 9 (1.965 %) Validation 8 9 (1.965 %) Performance Management 9 8 (1.747 %) Automated Testing 9 8 (1.747 %) Supplier Management 9 8 (1.747 %) Fault Management 9 8 (1.747 %) Risk Management 10 7 (1.528 %) Change Management 10 7 (1.528 %) CAD 10 7 (1.528 %) CRM 10 7 (1.528 %) UML 10 7 (1.528 %) Data Management 11 6 (1.310 %) Data Migration
Programming Languages 1 40 (8.734 %) C 2 29 (6.332 %) C++ 3 19 (4.148 %) SQL 4 14 (3.057 %) Java 5 9 (1.965 %) VB 5 9 (1.965 %) Perl 6 6 (1.310 %) Embedded C 7 5 (1.092 %) Embedded C++ 7 5 (1.092 %) Shell Script 8 4 (0.873 %) VBA 9 3 (0.655 %) PHP 9 3 (0.655 %) C# 10 2 (0.437 %) JavaScript 11 1 (0.218 %) VC++ 11 1 (0.218 %) VB.NET 11 1 (0.218 %) RPG	Qualifications 1 16 (3.493 %) Degree 2 8 (1.747 %) ISEB 3 6 (1.310 %) Cisco Certification 4 5 (1.092 %) HNC 4 5 (1.092 %) HND 5 4 (0.873 %) CCNA 6 3 (0.655 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 3 (0.655 %) CCNP 7 2 (0.437 %) CIMA 8 1 (0.218 %) PMP 8 1 (0.218 %) PMI Certification 8 1 (0.218 %) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 22 (4.803 %) ISO27001 2 15 (3.275 %) SLA 3 10 (2.183 %) BS7799 4 8 (1.747 %) QA 5 7 (1.528 %) ISO9000 6 2 (0.437 %) PCI DSS 6 2 (0.437 %) ISO12207 6 2 (0.437 %) ISO9001 7 1 (0.218 %) GCP 7 1 (0.218 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 9 (1.965 %) Active Directory 2 2 (0.437 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 7 (1.528 %) Netcool 2 4 (0.873 %) Tivoli 3 3 (0.655 %) NNM 4 2 (0.437 %) OpenView 5 1 (0.218 %) CiscoWorks 5 1 (0.218 %) MOM 5 1 (0.218 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 1 (0.218 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 29 (6.332 %) Ericsson 2 27 (5.895 %) Microsoft 3 19 (4.148 %) Cisco 4 14 (3.057 %) Oracle 5 10 (2.183 %) IBM 5 10 (2.183 %) HP 6 8 (1.747 %) Sun 7 7 (1.528 %) Xilinx 8 5 (1.092 %) OPNET 9 4 (0.873 %) Cramer 9 4 (0.873 %) Lotus 9 4 (0.873 %) Business Objects 9 4 (0.873 %) EMC 10 3 (0.655 %) Juniper 10 3 (0.655 %) Genesys 10 3 (0.655 %) SAP 10 3 (0.655 %) Remedy 10 3 (0.655 %) Agilent 11 2 (0.437 %) Cadence 11 2 (0.437 %) Serena